Hosea 10:2 (KJV)
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Israel is an example of the trouble of the divided heart.
- On the one hand, they were the children of God. They claimed the same history, heritage, and culture as those in Judah.
- On the other hand, they wanted something different than Judah. They had their own king, altar, and worship.
- On the one hand, they lived in the Promised Land. It was given to them by God just as Judah’s land was given to them.
- On the other hand, they had taken it for themselves. They no longer claimed submission to the throne in Jerusalem.
- On the one hand, they worshiped the Lord. They had God-called prophets. They had citizens who remained faithful to the Lord.
- On the other hand, they had their own system of worship. They no longer traveled to the Temple in Jerusalem, nor were they ministered to through the Levitical priesthood.
Israel wanted the best of both worlds. They wanted to be free of the authority God had placed over them, but they wanted at the same time to benefit from the God who had separated them from the world.
This double mindedness, the divided heart, eventually destroyed them.
As it does to all, who wish to have all of God they can get and all of the world too.
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